Big town or small city?

With a population of 72,000 (in a metro area of a quarter million), Appleton is part of one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the Midwest. The area’s size, cultural complexity and breadth of businesses give you ample opportunities for internships, research projects, civic engagement and community service.

You can get here from there.
While it may sound like a tiny outpost, Outagamie County Regional Airport—only 6 miles from campus— serves Appleton by connecting to seven major hubs on
three major airlines: Chicago and Denver (United); Detroit, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Atlanta (Delta); and Milwaukee (on our home state favorite, Midwest).

About that weather...
We’ll get to the point: it can get cold here (average January high/low: 24°F/7°F), and it snows (about 4 feet per winter). We like to think of it as “character-building” weather. (If our students from equatorial countries can handle our weather, anybody can.) Winter’s payoff: spring is spectacular. Fall is pretty fabulous, too.

Get out(side)!
Running, hiking, cycling, rowing, sitting. If you do any of these things—and there’s a good chance that you do at least one of them—you’ll have plenty of outdoor places to do them throughout the area: from High Cliff State Park at Lake Winnebago five miles from campus, to the northward-flowing Fox River running along Lawrence’s edge, to dozens of parks within a two-mile radius of campus.

College Avenue
Chicago has the Magnificent Mile. Appleton has College Avenue, with a dizzying array of restaurants (from fivestar dining to late-night pizza), a bunch of great coffee shops (from the ubiquitous Starbucks to locally owned Brewed Awakenings and Copper Rock), and dozens of stores. All of it is right outside your door at Lawrence.

Broadway on College
A half mile from campus, the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center brings the entertainment world to Appleton. The fiveyear-old, $45 million jewel seats 2,100 (with the “worst seat in the house” barely 100 feet from the stage). Appleton—not Milwaukee or Madison—is the host for the Wisconsin premieres of The Lion King and Wicked.

Did you know?
On August 20, 1882, Appleton became the first city to generate electricity commercially. (Two weeks later, New York City became the second city to do so.)